Akshay Mishra
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Mishra is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, reliable control plane and DBaaS systems for enterprise cloud customers. He has driven core platform work at Nutanix and Oracle and is now contributing to Control Plane Platform Services at Microsoft, specializing in Java, Go, Kubernetes, and Postgres-backed architectures. His recent focus includes building distributed database management features—provisioning, backups, snapshots, patching, and cross-cloud operations—reflecting strong domain expertise in database lifecycle automation. Equally comfortable in fast-paced agile teams and low-level systems work, he combines pragmatic engineering with thoughtful design and an inclination to prototype ideas (programmer, thinker, coder). Based in San Jose, Akshay pairs a Master’s in Software Engineering with hands-on production experience supporting popular DB engines and large-scale cloud services. Not obvious from titles alone: he’s repeatedly worked on the end-to-end control plane plumbing that lets DBaaS offerings operate seamlessly across both on-prem and public clouds.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Software Engineering, Master’s Degree Software Engineering at San José State UniversityBachelor's Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (40)
kibana9
visualizations9
elastic9
elasticsearch9
observability8
pocket7
database6
pouchdb6
koala6
couchdb6
javascript6
qbcore-framework4
react3
ruby-on-rails3
mongodb3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mishraak/mishraak.github.io
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:118 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
SJSU272Lab/ELKPlot
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:17 PRs, 45 pushes, 1 comment in 2 months
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